Category Archives: WordPress

WP 2.3 Plugin - Per Post Creative Commons License

This plugin will add the ability to choose different Creative Commons licensing structures for different posts that you publish to your WordPress blog.
As far as i could tell, there are currently 2 other CC plugins for WordPress - wpLicense and cc-configurator - however both of them only let you set your license on a global […]

Using Subversion with WordPress - Part 2: Maintaining Vendor Branches and Upgrading WP Core Files

This article assumes you have already read, “Using Subversion with WordPress - Part 1: Creating Vendor Branches and Integrating your Existing Code“. In short, you want to use Subversion to track/maintain local versions of both WordPress code and your own internal project code, side-by-side, all in the same svn repository.
In the previously mentioned article we […]

Using Subversion with WordPress - Part 1: Creating Vendor Branches and Integrating your Existing Code

This article assumes that you’ve read the basic svn howto and the more specific one provided on the WP Codex but would like to try or need a setup similar to that described here on a page called: Vendor branches. In short, you want to use Subversion to track/maintain local versions of both WordPress code […]

WordPress 2.3 Plugin - ezmlm mailing list subscribe form

ezmlm is a qmail-based mailing list manager written by Dan J. Bernstein.
From their site: “It has all the basic functionality of a mailing list manager, such as subscriber address management including automated bounce handling as well as message distribution and archiving. Its purpose is to efficiently send a message to a large number of […]

Site Upgraded - A little facelift is all

- Finally got around to upgrading from WP 2.0.11 to WP 2.3.1 -
This site was in maintenance mode for a good part of the evening due to an incompatibility with WP 2.3.1 and the previous theme used here on Techblog. I spent some time trying to work out the problems but the breakage was pretty […]

WP 2.3 Plugin - Limit Visibility by Capability

This plugin is pretty simple (yet effective) - so i’ll try and keep things short.
You can use this plugin to limit the visibility of your WordPress 2.3 site to only logged in users that have a specific (pre-defined) WP Capability. Any of the standard WP Capabilities can be used, like: read, edit_posts, publish_posts, edit_users, manage_options, […]

How to get the WPG2 plugin to work with Thickbox

If you have a Gallery2 installation intergrated with Wordpress 2.3 - using the WPG2 plugin - then you are probably aware that the G2Image chooser includes a choice for inserting images into posts using the LightBox effect and pointing to a full-sized image.
Well, i needed a choice/option that worked in a similar way but for […]

WP 2.3.1 Plugin - Notify Admin Only of Wordpress Updates

Well, Wordpress 2.3.1 is out and if you’re anything like me, you still haven’t upgraded..
I know it was just released yesterday but for those of you who had already upgraded to WP2.3 within the last few weeks, you may have noticed the AWESOME NEW UPDATE NAG that appears in the back-end of your site !
WP2.3 […]

Live Category-based OPML template for WordPress 2.0

ok, here’s a little something i’ve been messing with..
i wanted to generate an OPML file based on all the different types of feeds offered with the default WordPress installation. that is, every WP site has a “main” site feed (in rdf, rss, and atom), but there are also category (and subcategory) feeds, as well as […]

Wordpress Plugin: Extended Live Archive | setup

I just installed Sons Of Skadi’s Extended Live Archive plugin for wordpress because the archives page on this site was getting a little out of control and i wanted to test out a few wordpress plugins that might help to make things a little bit more usable. The Extended Live Archive plugin uses javascript and […]

Optimize WordPress for Seach Engines

These are some additional tips i picked up for getting better page rankings from site like google while using wordpress. Basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can be found on another post entitled: SEO - 13 Basic Steps.

WordPress 1.5.1.3 - Upgrade Revisited

So in my earlier post i named 5 files that needed to be replaced (according to the wordpress site) in order to upgrade to 1.5.1.3 from 1.5.1.2 without deleting all the files regularly required.
Now i’m not so sure that this was all there is to it.
An FrSIRT Advisory reporting on the wordpress vulnerability names these […]